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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]This "editorial" goes against the traditions that online Gor seems to have been entrenched in for its entire history. Fair warning. Where did the concept that every slave "offered" service to every free whose path they crossed, come from? How did online Gor come to accept that it was required? That it was the nuts & bolts of slavery after the steel clicked in place? That it was offensive if a slave didn't "offer"? i wasn't here for the genesis of online Gor, nor the branching out of the first rooms and sites. Musing on it though, i suspect that the first room(s) were something of a paga den, or a small camp - and the slaves served each night as men gathered around the campfire. And, as more rooms were opened, they simply carried on the concept, regardless of the setting or location the room was supposed to portray. (It appears for many rooms that duplication occurred on so many things - the slave rules all look pretty much the same, same copied over lists of foods and drinks and caste colors...ah but that is another discussion ~L~) And, perhaps that's the way it was when most of us got here, and we accepted it as the way things are done - and get a little ruffled even when it [b]isn't[/b] done. But you know, that isn't how it is in the books. Nope. Not at all ~s~ Paga slaves, working in a paga tavern for their Master, the owner of the tavern - now [b]they[/b] raced from one customer to another offering paga, refilling goblets and bowls. Yes, they did. [b]When they were IN the tavern[/b]. At other times, these paga slaves were on the docks recruiting customers for their Masters business, attempting to entice men to come to the tavern - but ~laughing~ [b]not[/b] asking the men on the docks if they could [/i]bring[/i] them a paga from the tavern. As for the slaves who were not paga slaves? They might be state slaves, or field slaves, or work slaves, or pleasure slaves. They might be private slaves or lure girls or coin girls or kettle slaves or ladies serving slaves. Each had a different slavery, different requirements, different duties - and [b]none[/b] of it was based on "offering service" to every free they wandered past. Except the coin girl whose duty was to beg to be used by men, for coin ~winks~ [/quote]
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About this "serving" thing
replied on: 10/26/2003 8:57:27 PM

This "editorial" goes against the traditions that online Gor seems to have been entrenched in for its entire history. Fair warning.

Where did the concept that every slave "offered" service to every free whose path they crossed, come from?

How did online Gor come to accept that it was required? That it was the nuts & bolts of slavery after the steel clicked in place?

That it was offensive if a slave didn't "offer"?

i wasn't here for the genesis of online Gor, nor the branching out of the first rooms and sites. Musing on it though, i suspect that the first room(s) were something of a paga den, or a small camp - and the slaves served each night as men gathered around the campfire.

And, as more rooms were opened, they simply carried on the concept, regardless of the setting or location the room was supposed to portray. (It appears for many rooms that duplication occurred on so many things - the slave rules all look pretty much the same, same copied over lists of foods and drinks and caste colors...ah but that is another discussion ~L~)

And, perhaps that's the way it was when most of us got here, and we accepted it as the way things are done - and get a little ruffled even when it isn't done.

But you know, that isn't how it is in the books. Nope. Not at all ~s~

Paga slaves, working in a paga tavern for their Master, the owner of the tavern - now they raced from one customer to another offering paga, refilling goblets and bowls. Yes, they did. When they were IN the tavern.

At other times, these paga slaves were on the docks recruiting customers for their Masters business, attempting to entice men to come to the tavern - but ~laughing~ not asking the men on the docks if they could bring them a paga from the tavern.

As for the slaves who were not paga slaves? They might be state slaves, or field slaves, or work slaves, or pleasure slaves. They might be private slaves or lure girls or coin girls or kettle slaves or ladies serving slaves.

Each had a different slavery, different requirements, different duties - and none of it was based on "offering service" to every free they wandered past. Except the coin girl whose duty was to beg to be used by men, for coin ~winks~

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